The BMC will set up a special cell to look into cell tower radiation violations in the city, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta at the civic general body meeting on Friday.

Municipal councillors also demanded that a survey of all mobile towers in the city be undertaken to see if they are complying with the Central government norms.

Mumbai: The state pollution control board has banned four fire-crackers that have been found to have crossed the permissible sound level, with some recording 126.7dB.

The number of noisy firecrackers violating decibel limits has hit a two-year low, results of the joint firecracker tests conducted on Thursday show.

More than seven years after the biannual open air firecracker tests started, have they been reduced to empty theatrics with no impact?

It was the lull before the storm. After a significant drop last fiscal, the number of deaths from swine flu has shot up by about 800% in the state this year.

Following the Bombay High Court’s stay on usage of the Kanjurmarg landfill for dumping municipal solid waste, the civic administration claimed wrong evidence was produced in court during the trials.

According to Additional Municipal Commissioner Mohan Adtani, who gave the BMC’s explanation on the judgment on standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale’s request, the landfill area does not fall under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ).

Mumbai: The Bombay high court, in an interim order, on Tuesday restrained the BMC from dumping waste and debris at the Kanjurmarg landfill.

The state government has launched a mission to widen the state’s campaign against malnutrition.

A city-based NGO on Monday came out with 10 remedial measures to save water which it wants the BMC to follow.

The state government, while claiming that infant mortality rate in the state has improved and malnutrition has declined drastically, announced a special drive for the eradication of the malnutritio